The layoffs on Saturday night impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter’s various features online
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What I would do with Twitter if I were Elon Musk
Short-term success does not equal long-term gain
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Elon Musk shuts down Twitter offices, issues ultimatum ‘work long hours or quit’
The offices will reportedly remain closed until Monday
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Twitter turmoil: Elon Musk publicly fires employees
Musk who has always been known to think out loud, fired engineer Eric Frohnhoefer publicly, who worked on Twitter’s app for the Android mobile operating system
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Twitter terminates 4,400 contractual workers without prior notice
Some of the contract workers were based in India, whereas others spread across various locations
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Twitter ‘bankrupt’: Elon Musk to impose 80-hour work week, no food as solution
Musk said that bankruptcy “was a possibility” if Twitter does not start generating more cash
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Twitter turmoil: Elon Musk set to enable longer tweets, monetise creators amid sweeping platform changes
Among a wave of changes after Elon Musk’s twitter takeover, more changes have been made
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Twitter fires 90% of Indians
The firing spree is part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk
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‘Twitter’s loss is Dubai’s gain’: Mass firing by tech firms to trigger surge in tech talent movement to UAE
Fintech, edtech and healthtech ventures are the most sought after sectors for techies moving from India and other parts of the world to the Gulf country
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Twitter asks fired employees to come back
Of the 3,700 employees that were let go on Friday, some of them were laid off “by mistake”
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Twitter to charge $20 per month for users to maintain verified status
Employees failing to meet the said deadline will be fired by Elon Musk
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Musk starts his rule at Twitter by firing CEO Agrawal and three others
CFO Ned Sagal, top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sean Edgett among those who get the axe as Tesla founder takes over the social media platform
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Elon Musk plans to fire 75 percent Twitter staff: Report
Musk had told investors he planned to shrink staff in his initial pitch to bankers for funding